If it had not been for the recent showers, Bassette said he would have had to do more irrigating. As with Botticello, the extreme heat has not caused Bassette to raise his prices.

"In this economy if you raise prices, people are going to go somewhere else to get it," he said, laughing.

According to the U.S. drought monitor by the National Integrated Drought Information System, the northern half of the state is "abnormally dry," which is the lowest of five drought condition levels.

But the state has not declared a drought advisory, said Bruce Wittchen, an environmental analysts from the state Office of Policy and Management.

The state has an Interagency Drought Work Crew that meets when necessary to discuss potentially dry and drought-like conditions, he said. The month has been running dry, and the group will meet at the end of the month to discuss these conditions, Wittchen said.

The group considers criteria such as reservoir and stream levels to assess droughts, he said.

Wittchen said he is also paying attention to the Daily Forest Fire Danger Report, because of situation in Colorado. The current forest fire danger level is moderate, he said.

Currently, the state is experiencing high demands on the water supply, said Dwayne Gardner, a spokesperson in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

"When day time temperatures climb above 90F, usage goes up also," Gardner wrote in an email. "It is difficult to quantify but typically increases in water usage track with increases in power usage."

In the Midwest, the worst drought in a half century will affect crops for at least the next 10 days, AccuWeather agricultural meteorologist Jason Nicholls told Rueters on Thursday.